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by **Krong** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:34 am UTC

D'oh. Seeing that email reminded me that I have been a bit, ah, negligent in attending to my communications with H*R. I'll correct this soon.

As for the rest, I'd tend to believe it. We've lost cheat commandos, it seems plausible they'd be masons. But if it is true, it's a sad truth, if Gunhaver is the last of them.

And in the event that that's going to throw extra scrutiny on my posting, I guess I might as well admit that I have a posting restriction, though I've kept it *reasonably* well hidden until now. In somewhat related news, 6*4 = 50.

by **BoomFrog** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:46 am UTC

Housedog, I'm calling bullshit. One of these is a lie.

Hausdog wrote:Once per day (not night, day), I PM the mod saying "I'm eating such-and-such." It can apparently be anything in the game except the mods. So I can eat powers and flavor and players and stuff.

Hausdog wrote:Well even though the mods said I can eat flavor if I want, they said I can't eat the satellite because it's just flavor.

Assuming the laser is the nightkill for blue laser then it's a power. There's no way the mods are doing a backflip now and saying you can't eat flavor or powers. Try "eating blue laser's night kill". If I don't see a kill power being eaten by you in some way then my vote stays. It's clear that your lying about your power either today or yesterday. Which means your lying about your win condition and are anti-town. Eat the laser or hang.

Also you never answered my previous question. Do you know who the poopsmith is?

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Homestar wrote:Our investigation on a man named Krong failed

I'm confused what this means. I assume it means the investigation was roleblocked? I don't see how Krong could have known who was about to investigate him so this has no bearing on Krong's scumminess.

Catch two gator.

by **Mavketl** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:15 am UTC

BoomFrog wrote:
Homestar wrote:Our investigation on a man named Krong failed
I'm confused what this means. I assume it means the investigation was roleblocked? I don't see how Krong could have known who was about to investigate him so this has no bearing on Krong's scumminess.

That's the most probable explanation, but it's always possible that there is something about Krong that makes him un-investigate-able. Which could have bearing on his scumminess, so we should at least keep it in mind.

Well, unless you have some sort of reason to present Krong as unscummy, of course.

by **mpolo** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:39 pm UTC

With the Cheat Commandos coming up Homestarmy, I think the "umbrella" theory is most likely correct -- everyone who is town is in fact Homestarmy. The Cheat Commandos being masons within that group makes perfect sense. Gunhaver seems to be the only one of them left, which is also understandable (the other major Commando is played by The Cheat, who is almost certainly scum, so I could imagine this little detail being just ignored out of existence to avoid having a traitor character).

Krong is either untrackable or the CCs investigation was blocked.

Is Krong's restriction the abuse of commas?

by **BoomFrog** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:40 am UTC

Krong wrote:I guess I might as well admit that I have a posting restriction, though I've kept it *reasonably* well hidden until now. In somewhat related news, 6*4 = 50.

I assumed he was soft claiming "must do bad math" but a quick scan through his past posts doesn't reveal any bad math, although he does seem to make a point of always using a number in every post. The clearest example is:

P.S.: It's Friday the 13th, a sign of good luck to all!

I don't know what that tells us if it's true, I guess more wiki hunting, although it could easily be a soft-falseclaim considering it's Krong. Your reputation precedes you sir.

Kill it's stumping.

by **slbub** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:50 am UTC

I have an idea, since the Home Star Army cannot send messages to each other; they could send the messages to Mr. Home Star with the endings saying that these certain messages should not be posted in the tread this could be for cop reports and other such things. Since he is the leader of the army he should be the most trusted with the information, well unless he is acting too much like the character.

by **Dark Loink** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:02 am UTC

Goochlifta, DotProduct and Cellery have been lurking, and will be prodded.

3 Hausdog (slbub,BoomFrog, Krong)

by **tastelikecoke** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:56 pm UTC

So I don't fit the definition of lurking?

I may have no time during the weekends, weekdays, and little time in the midnight. Sorry.

Based on this new Homestar email information, I guess Homestar is a good writer who knows how to put his words in character, but it's hardly what would be utilizing the mechanic.

I didn't understand what Homestar meant by "The first is the person who sent it." I mean, who is the person, and what "it" did he send?

by **Mavketl** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:11 pm UTC

tastelikecoke wrote:I didn't understand what Homestar meant by "The first is the person who sent it." I mean, who is the person, and what "it" did he send?

I took that to mean the person who sent the message, which is signed "Homestar".

by **mpolo** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:47 pm UTC

Which means that Homestar knows who is communicating with him. I wonder if Strong Bad has the same power. I sent both of them kind of joke emails (SB, what are your evil plans? Homestar, is it true that you've joined the lodge?), but I suppose they were touching too closely on ingame material, so didn't get answered.

by **Krong** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:49 am UTC

Hey, guess who still hausn't been cooperating? Let me dog my memory for a bit... there was something to do with eating... and a couple of votes...

BoomFrog: Nothing to do with numbers, sorry. I have to say something that's incorrect in each of my posts. So far, I've tried to do it subtly and in ways that don't throw off discussion in order to keep it hidden. Though I really doubt anyone's going to get my role just from the posting restriction.

The capital of Texas is Chicago.

In other news, I should be able to be more active in this game now that Maff Effect is over.

Also:

BoomFrog wrote:I guess more wiki hunting, although it could easily be a soft-falseclaim considering it's Krong. Your reputation precedes you sir.

I realize this was meant as a compliment, but... you are aware of the recent kerfuffle over meta arguments, right?

by **mpolo** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:42 am UTC

Yes, is that dog, in fact, in the house?

At the rate we're going, I may end up just voting him again. I'd rather get a certainly anti-town player than a claimed independent, but this claimed independent has a reasonable flavor-based possibility to be anti-town and has been behaving anti-town: crippling the town's mechanism to communicate with our leader, refusing to eat something pro-town today, threatening various people with "claim or I'll SK you"…

If I keep up with this, I'm just going to convince myself to vote. And that encourages me to be lazy and not look at anyone else. So I'm going to leave this here.

by **ameretrifle** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:18 am UTC

Mavketl wrote:
tastelikecoke wrote:I didn't understand what Homestar meant by "The first is the person who sent it." I mean, who is the person, and what "it" did he send?
I took that to mean the person who sent the message, which is signed "Homestar".

I took it to mean "The person who sent an email will know that they sent the email. Because they sent the email."

Other than that, I, like everyone else, am very annoyed with Hausdog atm. I also keep trying to remember what I was thinking at the end of yesterday as regards suspicions and whatnot and not doing that well. I agree that Hausdog might be a worthy target if he keeps behaving like this, but does anyone have any other suspicions they'd like to air out? (And yes, I am willing to actually focus and voice a couple of my own. Soon. >_> <_<)

by **dotproduct** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:10 am UTC

(responding to mod-prod)

ameretrifle wrote:
Mavketl wrote:
tastelikecoke wrote:I didn't understand what Homestar meant by "The first is the person who sent it." I mean, who is the person, and what "it" did he send?
I took that to mean the person who sent the message, which is signed "Homestar".

I took it to mean "The person who sent an email will know that they sent the email. Because they sent the email."

I'm gonna agree with amt here.

BoomFrog wrote:Housedog, I'm calling bullshit. One of these is a lie.
Hausdog wrote:Once per day (not night, day), I PM the mod saying "I'm eating such-and-such." It can apparently be anything in the game except the mods. So I can eat powers and flavor and players and stuff.
Hausdog wrote:Well even though the mods said I can eat flavor if I want, they said I can't eat the satellite because it's just flavor.

Hausdog, can you explain this?

My only other suspicion is on tastelikecoke,
for not mentioning who the "far more scummier targets" were in this post.

Spoiler:

by **tastelikecoke** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:31 am UTC

dotproduct wrote:
ameretrifle wrote:
Mavketl wrote:
tastelikecoke wrote:I didn't understand what Homestar meant by "The first is the person who sent it." I mean, who is the person, and what "it" did he send?
I took that to mean the person who sent the message, which is signed "Homestar".

I took it to mean "The person who sent an email will know that they sent the email. Because they sent the email."

I'm gonna agree with amt here.

Hooray for not reading.

dotproduct: If you mean that I was spineless and I didn't define the "scummier targets" that I said in Day 1, well, those who claimed independents ticked me off more than Wooy. But you're right that thar part of my post was vague, since I just concluded in my analysis he's not as "really convincing" and "actively lurking" as they say.

by **Dark Loink** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:55 pm UTC

Hremail #7: Aturo 9000:

And for my next trick, it's Homestar Runner!

*applause*

Today's e-mail comes from a couple of them fe-lions:

Dear Homestar,
Did you really join a masonic lodge in your free time this summer?

Does the buffalo hat fit?

Sincerely,
Curious and curiouser

No C-dubs, I didn't. But summer vacate's still in it's adorable newborn baby-head phase, before it gets older and stays out too late and starts always askin' around for car keys and cars to go with 'em. I still got plenty of time. There's no reason why I can't just join one right now!

I'll be right back.

*one week later*

Hoo, that was a weird week! I mean, a lot of cool stuff happened, but there's a bunch of hard work too. I had no idea at all how hard making a building is!

Oh, and the buffalo hat, it fit. But I don't think the buffalo was too happy about me taking it...

Anyway, so keep throwing the electronic paper e-mail planes my way, and I'll get to the answering thing. Seriously, keep them coming. I can only run so far, serious or daily or otherwise, before my last-resort emergency reserve of e-mails to answer runs dry.

by **Dark Loink** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:56 pm UTC

Hremail #8: Aturo 9000:

Homestarm-e-mail No 3:

Aright maggots, listen up! In the The Field of battle, you hafta be aware all the time, every time! Focus is key, but don't forget zoom and sepia, they're pretty handy too. Never lose that drive. The fate of the Homestarmy depends on it, you got that?

Now, let's say you're walking along, hypothetically writing an e-mail journal, when all of a sudden you write something like what this guy wrote:

Dear Homestar,
I found out that person X is town with a cop power. What should I do
about this information? Oh and how are things going with marzipan?

You'd find it odd, wouldn't you, private? What would you do in that situation?

Well don't get your tube socks in a knot there, Betsy. Just remember to do what you were trained to do: what you found out is important Homestarmy info, and it will be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands at the wrong time. Keep it to yourself for now. When all the chips are kinged and you have no "get outa jail free" card, then you have the edge.

And if any of you dirtbags finds yourself trapped in a room with an angry, rabid Marzipan, just remember to stop, drop, and roll your way to the safest and farthest place available.

Ok, soldiers, at ease, move out!

by **mpolo** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:48 pm UTC

I find it interesting that StrongBad has just totally disappeared. I presume that means that his player is lurky. I should be on again tomorrow, but just in case, I'm going to put my vote back. Hausdog just isn't responding and that makes his anti-town behavior appear even more anti-town.

Vote: Hausdog

by **Dark Loink** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:11 pm UTC

Hremail # 9: Aturo 9000:

...

...

...

Dear Homestar,
Congratulations, A winner is you!

YOU WON 1 600 million Dollars in the form of Fast Food Gift Certificates!

Go to Shady Back Alley, Free Country, USA to Claim your Prize!
Or call 911 and we will deliver it to you free of charge!

Disclaimer:
Gift certificates expire after 2 femtoseconds. Beware, food certificates are not edible. 911(tm) Is a registered trademark. This email can bite when provoked. This disclaimer can kill you when used improperly. Shady Back Alley is not for sale, not for rent, not for hire, and not good for your health. This joke is not guaranteed to be funny, viewer discretion is advised. The cake is lie. I only want you gone. space.

Sincerely,
Low Orbit Earth Sattelite

*Homestar Runner is out of the building, but he'll be back and safe next Monday to answer all of your delicious all-new e-mail questions. As long as you send the question, he'll have an answer.*

by **Hausdog** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:49 am UTC

mpolo wrote:I find it interesting that StrongBad has just totally disappeared. I presume that means that his player is lurky. I should be on again tomorrow, but just in case, I'm going to put my vote back. Hausdog just isn't responding and that makes his anti-town behavior appear even more anti-town.

Vote: Hausdog

Who's Strong Bad?

Also there was nothing in those two posts of mine that supposedly contradict each other that contradicts either of the other posts. I said I can eat flavor, the mods said I can eat flavor, I asked if I can eat that, they said "no, it's just flavor." So now I'm all "lol"

by **slbub** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:44 am UTC

If this is true then you should have eaten Strong Bad's computer by now! Strong Bad is the leader of the army that goes against the army of Home Star! Asking questions is okay but don't act like ignorance is an excuse!

by **BoomFrog** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:33 am UTC

Hausdog wrote:Also there was nothing in those two posts of mine that supposedly contradict each other that contradicts either of the other posts. I said I can eat flavor, the mods said I can eat flavor, I asked if I can eat that, they said "no, it's just flavor." So now I'm all "lol"

There are two possibilities. Either the Mods are contradicting themselves or you are lying about what the mods said. I don't believe the first so that leaves only the second.

slbub wrote:If this is true then you should have eaten Strong Bad's computer by now!

No, strongbads computer is next to useless. If he eats the computer I will assume he has an incentive to allow more kills to happen, aka he's anti-town.

I think cellery, DotProduct, and John Citizen need modprods. Gopher of Pern too, but he posted in wizardry recently that he was hella sick and is back now.

by **Krong** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:02 am UTC

Hausdog wrote:I said I can eat flavor, the mods said I can eat flavor, I asked if I can eat that, they said "no, it's just flavor." So now I'm all "lol"

If you're telling the truth, it's not all "lol", because either you or the mods got something very wrong. If I didn't have a power I thought I had, I'd be upset about it.

In the meantime, um... have you given us any reason, any reason at all, to believe you have town's interests in mind? Because right now it looks like we're waiting and waiting for you to present a defense, and you just come back after several days and say nothing particularly useful.

Oh, one thing I thought of recently -- weiyaoli. He's kind of dropped off in posting in this game, which given how regularly he usually posts, looks like a sign to me that he doesn't have anything at stake in the lynch. I'm now considering going ahead with the game-balance-complaint thing... any objections?

In other news, Rory McIlroy set a record today for worst U. S. Open score of all time. They took a lot of money away from him because of how poorly he did.

by **slbub** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:32 am UTC

Mr. Product posted on friday.

by **tastelikecoke** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:53 am UTC

In other news, Rory McIlroy set a record today for worst U. S. Open score of all time. They took a lot of money away from him because of how poorly he did.

Wait what?

by **Krong** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:05 am UTC

My posting restriction. As long as I'm going to be blatant about it, might as well have a bit of fun. Better than something like this:

7/8 = 4

by **Gopher of Pern** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:59 am UTC

All this discussion, and it's all focused on Hausdog. There are no real leads on anybody else. Seeing as though they are being very anti-town, I'm going to vote for them.

Vote: Hausdog

Krong, re: weiyaoli:

I'm pretty sure someone did that already, back in Day1 sometime. I can't find where atm though.

by **BoomFrog** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:28 am UTC

amusingly housedog did. weiyaoli then indicated that it was only step one in some multistep kinda thing. I'm kinda nervous about what he's going to pull endgame, but finding real scum is more important.

I'm convinced now that housedog is anti-town independent, however he (or his group) do not have a nightkill. As long as he doesn't eat any more townie things, or people, I don't think he's actually worth lynching. I think we should ignore housedog and get back to trying to figure out who the real scum are. I'm looking at everyone who's kept their heads down hoping for the housedog lynch to go through.

Like Chandani :shock:

unvote
Vote Chandani

by **mpolo** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:34 pm UTC

On the other hand, establishing that Hausdog is in fact in a faction, could be very important to us as town.

I'm not against lynching real scum by any means, but the only thing we've had from Hausdog is (1) eating a pro-town object and (2) threats to eat town players. This possible faction may have no night kills, but they manifestly do have day kills, so I'm perfectly willing to remove that threat.

by **weiyaoli** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:29 am UTC

This balance is so unfair if even the claimed independent like Hausdog are acting so anti-town! Don't you guys think so?

by **mpolo** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:55 am UTC

Nice try, there StrongSad. I almost want to help you, but I'm afraid of what might happen…

by **Dark Loink** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:07 pm UTC

This day is getting slow, plus it has already lasted a while. Expect deadline soon, soon as I confirm a time with ahippo.

Votals:
4 Hausdog (mpolo, Gopher of Pern, slbub, Krong)
1 Chandani (Boomfrog)

by **tastelikecoke** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:57 am UTC

I had a fair share of annoyance on how Hausdog acts, his lynch would clear up some mud, but won't probably make us more interested or invigorated. Hausdog's anti-town actions is enough to warrant a vote.

vote: Hausdog

by **Mavketl** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:24 pm UTC

Assuming the deadline won't be "BAM 24 HOURS FROM NOW", but just in case: I'll be gone for a couple of days.

by **slbub** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:50 am UTC

Could the Moderators please post the restriction with a seventy two hour notice as well as the number of players required for a lynch?

by **BoomFrog** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:42 am UTC

Everyone who is lurking sucks. Ducks bike a two-fer.

by **slbub** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:58 am UTC

I was looking at all of the posts form Eajik and Mr. Frog, and I have thought that I found a trend in the postings of every other post have some language messed up in it first Eajik only made two posts I am sure that the language in the first post has the olny mistake of (sorry 'bout...) but the second post has one of the more interesting statements (Other then that, lot such to go cough of.) esspecially the second part, I did notice that there is some meaning to the later ones with boom frog like the (Whor loose tit) and (catch two gator), obviously being (or loose it) and (catch you later) as the actual meanings but there are some others that I couldn't have found out the meanings to them as follows...

Drum or down
kill it's stumping
Ducks bike a two-fer

there was also mention of mod prods and the frog said

hella sick

now I am not sure on if that was along with his posing restriction or if that was some thing from wizardry or what ever.

so back on the every other bad language thing... ...this theory follows flush with all of the posts untill after the post of the strumpet misplacing a section of her anatomy :roll:

then there are five posts by the froggy one where I could not find a problem with the posts that went with my idea of ever other,

this then lead me to the thought of "what if I missed the 2nd and 4th with mistakes" if someone could do the I would be much oblighed if they find a solution other than bomb toad messing up.

after that the pattern follows once again up to the current post of the ducks.

mOds aye giives uP on the starfs unt what knoT!?!? :wink:

Too much trouble, but I learned my lesson.

by **BoomFrog** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:12 am UTC

Would it ruin the fun if I told you the answers? I can't think of much reason not to claim my rolename since it's already clear that I'm not Homestar.

mOds aye giives uP on the starfs unt what knoT!?!? Too much trouble, but I learned my lesson.

What is this about?

by **mpolo** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:03 pm UTC

Miss a day and come back to a bewildering post from slbub. It seems that he is onto BoomFrog's restriction in some sense, but has himself posted something really, really strange.

More tomorrow, I sincerely hope. (See other games where I am alive for the reason.)

by **slbub** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:45 pm UTC

boomfrog, I didn't ask for any answers I like the whole mistery thing of trying to find out who you are, as for my last little tid bit whatever it is of no real concern.

but over all did anyone pick up on the gap in his posting restriction that I missed and if I was wrong about the possible fact stuff was missing therefore making it missing stuff.

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